Early this year, Ivy Barley co-founded Developers in Vogue to bridge the technology gap between males and females in the tech field and shape a world where more African women will be daring enough to take on jobs in a male-dominated tech field.

In June 2017, Developers in Vogue organized their first coding bootcamp where they taught 20 girls to code in HTML, CSS and JavaScript.
Out of the 20 participants, 5 of them have so far gotten full-time jobs in tech firms, another 5 are currently working as freelancers and 6 recently won a Devless hackathon organized by the Meltwater Entrepreneurial School of Technology.

For her efforts, Ivy won the Ghana Youth Social Entrepreneurship competition held by Digital Opportunity Trust, The TEN Ghana Elevator Pitch Contest in June 2017 and the E-Skills for Girls Competition In Berlin, Germany which came with €15,000 prize and Mentorship from Google. She also had the Opportunity to meet the German Chancellor, Angela Merkel.

Ivy is currently hoping to win $100,000 in the Kwese Inc #GoGettaz competition. By winning $100,000 she hopes to train 1,000 girls in 2018. Help her make this dream come true by voting for her.

Here is how to vote:

1. Visit https://win.kwese.com
2. Vote for IVY’s Video which is #3 by clicking on the Facebook or Twitter icon under her video to share on your wall.
3. Go back to https://win.kwese.com
4. Share IVY’s Video with each of your Facebook friends

You can do this as many times as possible. Don’t forget to share the link with your friends too.

Let’s support Ivy and help her empower more African women to take up roles in tech. Remember, your sister could be one of the beneficiaries.